You can forward .ppt slides around in larger groups and help provide the context for the product. Also, while investors/partners seem to not always believe the

You can forward .ppt slides around in larger groups and help provide the context for the product. Also, while investors/partners seem to not always believe the slides they help visualize your thinking on the market opportunity/product e.g. 1. Team - Are the founders going to be able to grow the business, what have they built before. 2. Market - What is the market and how do you frame it. How big is this opportunity? Who are your partners, where are you distributed? 3. Economics - Sales projections, unit economics, how money would be spent (Hiring, marketing, etc.) 4. Competition - Are you aware of the competitors and what is your strategy to compete? How are people solving this problem now why are their solutions not good enough? 5. Pipeline - Your MVP is likely rough, how are you going to improve it? What is the timeline. Obviously not needed for all projects, but if you need investment or to hook a 3rd party these questions are going to come up and are hard to communicate via product. Definitely the case where software is part of a solution not the end all product. Key to have a deck for biz dev and other commercial situations.